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Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

20115,814 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Michael W. Schmidt · University of Zurich

Margaret Torn · University of California, Berkeley

Samuel Abiven · University of Zurich

Thorsten Dittmar · Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Georg Guggenberger · Leibniz University Hannover

Ivan A. Janssens · University of Antwerp

Topics & Keywords

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Isotope Analysis in Ecology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 478, Issue 7367, pp. 49-56

DOI: 10.1038/nature10386

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 267.31

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Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner · Technical University of Munich

Johannes Lehmann · Cornell University

David A.C. Manning · Newcastle University

P. Nannipieri · University of Florence

Daniel P. Rasse · Norwegian Institute for Air Research

Steve Weiner · Weizmann Institute of Science

Susan Trumbore · Max Planck Society